Baker Pins Down Doughnut Intruder

On Sunday, the clerk at the drive-through window of Dunkin' Donuts, 2499 University Drive, told him to wait a minute while she helped a customer in the store.

According to police reports, this is what happened next: Asprelli climbed halfway through the drive-through window before being pushed out by the clerk and a baker who ran to her aid. Asprelli, who apparently wanted faster service, then entered the store through a back door. He pushed the baker, Angel Pena, and tried to get to the clerk at the drive-through window.

Pena, who had been making the doughnuts, said he bonked Asprelli on the head with a rolling pin.

"Crazy man," said Kapila Patel, the store clerk.

Patel said she had just served another customer two or three doughnuts before getting ready to help Asprelli. The other customer was inside the store.

"Only one customer, that's it," she said.

Sunrise police responded to a 911 call and arrested Asprelli in a car near the Dunkin' Donuts. Asprelli received six stitches above his left eye at Florida Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale before being taken to the Broward County Jail. He was charged with burglary of an occupied structure and battery and assault, according to police.

Pena and Patel said they were not hurt.

Asprelli, 26, of 5961 NW 15th St., in Sunrise, could not be reached for comment Wednesday. The woman who answered the phone at his house said he was out of town on vacation. Pena did not return a message left on his answering machine.